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OROFTHE FLAMES ersons Burned to Death in ment House Fire In New York. York. March 15.-Nineteen sons were burnv, to death in a re which destroyed the five-story tenement house at 105 Allen street early on Tuesday. More than 40 were injured and only a few of the sleeping inmates escaped unhurt. Several of those who perished were roasted to death in plain view of thousands in the streets. Coroner Goldenkrans declared after an inves tigation that he had reason to believe the blaze was the work of an incen diary. He issued subpoenas for the fire marshal tenement house and build ing inspectors and health and police officials to appear before him at the inquest Thursday. The fire started in the basement and spread with frightful rapidity to the roof. The victims were caught in traps .f flames, the halls and exits being rendered impassable in a few minutes after :he blaze started. The building was one of the usual crowded tenements and the disaster was the worst in the history of the East Side. The district attornevs of fice has begun an investigation to place the blame for the great loss of life. Chief Croker of the fire department asserts that the police and the ten ement house departments are to blame for the violations of the fire escape law. The tenement house de partment officials, however, say that the blame is on the shoulders of the fire commissioner. Of the 19 dead. three bodies, those of a boy and two girls, remain uni dentified' The scenes were heartrending. The fire started in the basement occupied by Isaac Davis. his wife and three children. Wle:i Davis reached hiz kome carlv this morning and went ino his store on the same floor he saw a kerosene lamp in the rear ex plode. He awoke his wife and both tried to put out the flaming lamp, but without success. A policeman who heard the cry of alarm rushed to the scene and every effort was made to rouse the sl*ing people. Meantime the flames had spread with startling rapidity and the occu pants of the upper floors awoke to find themselves confronted by a wall of flames on nearly every side. Panic stricken people rushed to the fire es capes only to find them littered with rubbish. On some of the escapes the rubbish was so closely packed that it became impossible to pass certain points and men, women and children stood literally roasting to death as the flames roared througi the windows arom:d them. One of the escapes was manned by Police man John 'J. Dwan, who had run a plank across to the window of an ad joining building. He rescued nearly a dozen persons, but finally fell 20 feet to the pavem'rnt and shattered his shoulder. Dozs .:s of people were taken from the crowded fire escapes and upper windows. By this time the building was a furnace an,d the res cues were effected in many cases only through heroic ( fforts of the firemen. Lieut. Bonner, son of the former fire chief, ascended the now red-hot fire escapes five times. Four times he brought down a womnan or a child in his arms. The fifth -ime he was de scending with an unconscious wo man. but staggered and was b)arely saved from death. Once Bonner res cued a little girl from -a window where she stood surrounded by flames. She pleaded with him to leave her on the escape and go in after her little brother who she said had fallen unconscious. Bonner jumped into what looked like a fur niace. found the boy and saved him. TO WIN SUCCESS. It is Necessary to be Prepared For All Emergencies. Chicago Tribune. I said to a young man the other day: "Wh a: is your ambition-what do you mean to do with your life?" He replied: "I mean to be presi :lent of the United States." "Have you begun to get ready for it ?" I asked. "because, you know, it will require a great deal of prepara tion." "Yes," he aid 'AI have." And from what he told me of his work, hisi tudie! . his associates, and his ef rs at bcc'imiing equipped for :ust this thing. I shouldn't be at all 4;ur prised to see him at the head of the natin fifteen or twenty years hence. Ilis ambition means nothing: that he has already begun to prepare himself by hard work for this great responsi bilitv meians everything. Each man's present position is an index of just how strong and practi cal have been his efforts to get ready for better work. * * * * * * * Success is never of spontaneus de velopment. It is a plant which grows from a seed. Buried in darkness anld obscruity it slowly and surely puts out tiny sprouts and sends down sturdy roots then come stem, branc'n es. leaf, and, last of all, the blossom. Only an expert florist can deter mine a plant's value before the blooming season: the ordinary person is not sure whether is is a flower or a common weed. And so it is with the world's suc cessIul people. They are all around us, in various stages of development. Most of us do no: realize what they are until blossoming time. They amaze us, with a wonderful invention or a discovery in science. or a mas terpiece in literature, or a revolution in business methods. We applaud the last stage. we admire the beautiful flower, but we do not always appre ciate the germinating period. We say he was "born under a lucky star," or "with a silver spoon in his mouth," that he is a genius; that it is queer how some people have everything in the world and others nothing, all the time forgetting the season of prepar ation, the plant which was carefully nutured till it should develop suffi cient strength and age to burst into flower. In a wvesten railroad camp, a y*ng civil engineer bent evervy night -ver his )oks, dagrams and draw-1 ings. Ilis companions played poker and rallied him on his studiousness. They were satisfied that the day's work was satisfactorily finished they were running lines for a great transcon:inential railroad and the prospect of a long job relieved them of care for the future. But the studious young engineer worked on over his books and his drawings. He had an idea. The arid region over which they had traveled could be made into thrifty farming land if only water could be gotten to it. He spent the long evenings mas tering the principles of irrigation. He studied water systems and methods of cribbing and examining the soil and the streams. He figured out the expenses of gigantic canals and ways to make them supply water to the largest acreagc. He did his work during the day with all t:he more faithfulness and enthusiasm because of his study at night. H ard!y fifteen years from this time he was known as the greatest irriga tion expert of America. He was call ed upon to inspect irrigation systems all over the west and commanded as high as $200 a day for his services. Today he is the author of several works on the science of irrigation, and his name is known to every young engineer who aspires to suc ceed in this profession. They respect what they call his "genius," but they say "William Hammond Hall was lucky in the time of his birth. He got a hold on the west when it w~as new." forgetting that :here were doz ens ot young engineers who, with him, had the same apportunity and whose names are not known, who are' *rbably today looking for WiYiam Hammond Hall was not lucky' and he was not a genius. He merely saw his opportunity and used his spare time getting ready to do himself :bat which he knew would be done by some one some day. If he had not prepared for this work he could not have done it, no matter how many opportunities he might have had. * * * * * * In a great crisis the man who has prepared beforehand is the one who slips into the breach, and his name goes down in history as that of an illustrious citizen. Lincoln as a youth said: "The op portunity may come, I will be ready." SIn business it is the man who is prepared for more than h, e isdong who is given the promotion, who sees and seizes the opportunity. Eight years ago W. J. bryan elec trificd the country with a great speech in the demccratic convention, which won him the nomination for president. People said it was a won derful burst of oratory, an inspira tion. The truth is that Bryan had been working on that speech a long time. That for hours before he de livered it he was rehearsing in a small back bedroom in an obscure little hotel. The situation was under stood and the whole thing carefully planned. A young man was an assistant on a magazine. His position was insigni ficant, his salary small. He seemed however, to have none but office hours, for he was always at the office. He did his own work, and then he did everything any one would let him do. lie watched the editor make up the magazine and helped him. He came to know all the details of the work and the pubication's policy as well as the editor himself. Other employes laughed at him. Every night they shut up their desks promptly on the minute and departed, leaving him still "puttering around," as they expressed it. The editor died suddenly and the young man took up the work and carried it on. Today he employs his old fellow-employes, and many more besides. They talk of his "luck," forgetting his season of preparation, during which time they were engaged merely in earning their qalaries. * * * * * * * A general of an army might say: If I held a certain height, if a river were across our left, if the battlefield were differently situated, and a storm were not coming on, I could win. He would be a poor sort of general. He must use his position on the battle field. arrange his army, and plan the attack so as to win in site of the con1ditions; or if possible turn these same conditions into instruments of help. It will be remembered that in our war with Spain the naval battles were fotight with little paper ships in Washington before they took place on the ocean. Every move was care fully planned. Practical experience teaches us that the man who would succeed must prepare for the success he would achieve. That he mustn't wait for something to turn up, but must busy himself turning things up. Remember that nature has armed 'you with "such faculties as will en able you to do some feat impossible to any other man." It is well to make a living, but while doing it make a life. If you are going to help move the world, get ready to be a part of its moving force. Remember that "every institution is but the length ened shadow of one man." Your shadow will be in proportion to your conscientious preparation and plan. ning. You make it wvhat you will. New Idea Woman's Magazine. 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